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Secret to Freedom

Q is for Quilts – Leading the way to freedom

April 19, 2018 Claire Annette Noland 9 Comments

Slavery is a difficult but important topic to teach to young children. One of the best ways is to share stories featuring the amazing Freedom Quilt Maps. These quilts sewn with block patterns  were displayed as signals to slaves as they set out to the north during on the Underground Railroad. Because quilts were so […]

Filed Under: Blogging A to Z, book maps, Multicultural Children's Books, picture books Tagged With: a to z blog challenge, Freedom Quilts, Maps in Children's Books, Patchwork Path: a Quilt Map to Freedom, Secret to Freedom, Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt

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